Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — Pencil Counters. [ARTICLE]

Pencil Counters.

In pencil factories pencils are counted by an ingenious apparatus which takes the form of a number of parallel grooves. An operative takes a handful of pencils and rolls them along the board in which these grooves are, with the result that each groove is filled and the board set aside. As the number of grooves in tW boards are known, this prevents anj further trouble in counting.